Dr Deirdre Daly
Staff details
Position
Lecturer in Academic Literacies
Department
Centre for Academic Language and Literacies
d.daly (@gold.ac.uk)
Deirdre teaches writing for discovery using academic and creative techniques.
I offer a ‘writing as discovery’ approach to support writers at university develop their ideas, confidence, and voice. I am a Lecturer in Academic Literacies and research-practitioner specializing in writing development. I welcome inquiries from staff about bespoke resources or workshops for specific student cohorts.
I facilitate embedded workshops, short courses, and writing retreats for Home, EU and International students, as well as staff. I celebrate multilanguaging.
My background in philosophy influences my approach to writing instruction as a medium for thinking and creating. I use experiential pedagogy informed by research in Composition and Rhetoric, particularly in Writing in the Disciplines [WID]. My research is about how creative and therapeutic writing techniques can supplement writing instruction in academic contexts. Continuing, sideline research in the areas of Comparative and Modern European Philosophy also inspires my love of the adventure of words and ideas.
Academic qualifications
- PhD. Goldsmiths, University of London, UK 2010
- MA Cultural Studies. Goldsmiths, University of London, UK 2001
- BA European Studies. Trinity College, Ireland 1998
Teaching and supervision
Research interests
I am a researcher-practitioner. I devise and teach bespoke courses, workshops and writing retreats for the Graduate School and for departments including Sociology, Visual Cultures, ICCE, MCCs, and Education, amongst others. I also lecture on the Goldsmiths international pre-Masters (Grad. Dip.) on critical theory and on academic writing. I contribute to Goldsmiths’ working groups on A.I. and Practice Research
I research:
• Academic writing development and instruction
• Creative writing pedagogies
• Reflective writing and therapeutic writing
• Writing for research
• Writing in the Disciplines (WID)
• Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC)
• Academic writing retreats
• A.I. and academic integrity
• A.I. and academic writing
Conferences and talks
2022:
‘Enough Love for All My Future: using poetry-writing to develop confidence in migrant, second-language university students’
National Association of Writers in Education, online. 11 April 2022
2018:
‘Creative and Critical Writing’
National Association of Writers in Education, University of York, UK. 24 October 2019.
2019:
‘Lessons from Using Creative Writing Pedagogy for EAP and Academic Literacies’
Norwegian Forum for English for Academic Purposes Conference, Oslo Met University, Norway. 7 June 2019.
2016:
‘The World is an Egg: Deleuze and Hildegard von Bingen’
Society for European Philosophy Conference, University of Essex, UK. 18 June 2018
2015:
‘Benjamin’s Concept of the Criticism of Philosophy’
International Walter Benjamin Society Conference, University of Oxford, UK. 24 September 2017
2010:
‘Is there a Political Sense to Pascal's Public 'Agony of Conversion'?’
InC Conference, Goldsmiths College, UK
2010:
'For Better or Worse, Richer or Poorer: Economics, Statistics and Governance in Dickens’ Hard Times’
Dickens Fellowship Conference, Birkbeck College, UK